I love plaques more than anything else, because when I was a kid in grade 6 I always wanted the award of excellence, but I never got it. There's a YouTube chart, a Spotify chart, an iTunes chart. O'Brien: I don't really look at that like, "Oh my god, I'm back on the charts," but there's new charts so I want new plaques. How does it feel to see a song inspired by your international hit back on the charts? It was a little nutty.ĬP: "Con Calma" strips out a lot of the context of "Informer" and makes it a straight-forward club song, while keeping the original structure. I wasn't wearing socks for like a month, and then this girl was like, "You've got such nice feet though." And then I put socks back on. And then I quit chicken, but I forgot about chicken wings, and I love chicken wings. You've said that's why you decided to quit drinking about two years later. It was like, "Please get me out." But it's fun to see people dancing to it.ĬP: You managed to turn your life around, after being convicted in 1995 of assault and uttering death threats to two men in Toronto. O'Brien: It wasn't like that when I was in jail. "Informer" rose to popularity while he was in a corrections facility on a different assault charge.)ĬP: It must be strange to know your incarceration song is a retro party anthem.
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(Snow ended up spending a year in a Toronto detention centre, which he says it when he came up with the melody and chorus for "Informer." He was eventually acquitted. And then it came out and changed my whole life. This is life - I'm going to jail for 10 or 15 years. It was a serious charge - a serious song. Remember I wrote that song in jail when I got charged with two attempted murders (in 1989). They took it somewhere I don't.ĬP: Now that "Informer" is back in the conversation, has its significance evolved for you? What I loved is that he kept the melody of the chorus, but changed all the verses and made it his own flow. 1 pop singer on the Canadian charts with "Everybody Wants to Be Like You." Since "Con Calma" is a collaboration of sorts, do you see this as a Daddy Yankee track or yours? Snow, born Darrin O'Brien, reflected with The Canadian Press on the staying power of "Informer" and how "Con Calma" resonates differently with listeners in the social media generation.ĬP: You've had an unpredictable career that includes a period where you became a No. 1 on Billboard's main chart 26 years ago. The popularity has thrust "Informer" back into the spotlight with a new generation of listeners who weren't even born when the Jamaican dancehall-inspired track spent seven weeks at No. Snow, 49, ended up rapping a verse for "Con Calma," and not long after its release the song was racing up the charts.Ĭurrently it sits atop three of Billboard's key Latin airplay charts and at No. "But when I heard it I thought - 'Oh, this is fire."' "It was an honour this guy wanted to do the song over, but I was still thinking, 'Let me hear how it sounds,"' he said in a recent interview. Listen to the new remix in the video above.TORONTO - When reggaeton superstar Daddy Yankee asks to sample your song, it's a serious compliment, but Canadian reggae-rapper Snow admits he was cautious to lend his career-defining track "Informer" to another artist.īefore he gave the Puerto Rican singer permission to incorporate the hook of his 1992 megahit into the new single "Con Calma," the Toronto-based performer insisted on a quality check. RELATED: Janet Jackson And Daddy Yankee Get The Party Started In ‘Made For Now’ Music Video, Perform On ‘Tonight Show’ Perry sings in both English and Spanish throughout the song while trading verses with Yankee and Snow, who together co-wrote the new version of the Latin smash hit. The upbeat dancehall reggaeton track is a remake of 1992’s Hot 100 #1 single “Informer” by Canadian reggae musician by Snow, who features on the new remix alongside the “American Idol” judge. RELATED: ‘American Idol’: Katy Perry Saves Contestant From Elimination After Covering One Of Her Hit Songs The music video is also currently the #1 “Most Watched” video of 2019. 1 on Billboard’s “Latin Airplay” chart, as well as peaking at No.
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The original song dropped back in February and spent four consecutive weeks at No.
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Daddy Yankee’s “Con Calma” is already one of the biggest hits of 2019 and now he’s enlisted the help of Katy Perry and Snow for an epic remix.